The company announced that this movie is part of its strategy to bring a local payment and banking alternative to Peru. Peru has a large level of smartphone penetration, but many Peruvians still lack access to financial services.

Blockspace Media buys Bitcoin Layers to integrate L2 metrics into a new dashboard and data suite.

Fiat currencies and altcoins are entering a prolonged decline as expanding money supply revives gold’s dominance and pressures speculative assets, a trend veteran trader Peter Brandt says is accelerating across global markets.

Crypto markets are shedding their four-year cycle as ETFs, concentrated liquidity and investor attention reshape price discovery, with Wintermute research pointing to 2026 as the moment digital assets begin trading like global financial instruments.

Mounting global bond stress and soaring precious metals signal a weakening dollar and looming stagflation, while bitcoin faces a sharp reckoning as its digital gold narrative falters, economist Peter Schiff warned.

Bitcoin could face a deep, prolonged slide toward $10,000 if it fails to hold above $100,000, signaling a potential late-cycle peak and broader risk-asset reversal, according to Bloomberg Intelligence strategist Mike McGlone.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is calling for a new generation of decentralized autonomous organizations ( DAOs) that move beyond token-holder voting, arguing that today’s dominant DAO model is inefficient, fragile, and prone to political capture.

Venture capitalist Tim Draper is back with another bold bitcoin call, declaring in an X post after his interview with the Divot podcast and host Derek Andersen that the leading digital asset will hit “$250,000 in six months.” The billionaire doubled down, arguing bitcoin versus the greenback is a “really good bet” and saying it’s only a matter of time before it topples the U.S. dollar.

According to the latest data, total value locked in the real-world asset ( RWA) sector added more than a billion dollars in the opening weeks of January 2026, pushing the tally past the $21 billion threshold.

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The top crypto asset opened the week on the back foot, sliding 2.5% against the greenback since Sunday evening, yet it’s still nursing a roughly 1.5% gain over the past seven days. Meanwhile, traders and onlookers alike are holding their breath as U.S. President Donald Trump dusts off tariff threats aimed at several European countries.

OpenAI has confirmed plans to debut its first consumer hardware device in the second half of 2026, marking the company’s expansion beyond software products such as ChatGPT into physical AI technology.

On Monday, the U.S. dollar is sliding, with the Dollar Index (DXY)—which pits the greenback against a mix of heavyweights like the euro, yen, onshore yuan, and pound—tilting lower. Market watchers chalk it up to the “Sell America” trade, a strategy getting extra fuel from U.S. President Donald Trump’s run-ins with the Federal Reserve and his latest tariff warnings aimed at several European countries.

Across Myriad, Kalshi, and Polymarket, prediction traders are converging on a familiar conclusion: bitcoin looks far more likely to flirt with six figures than collapse into deep drawdown territory anytime soon.

The New York Stock Exchange is taking a deliberate step into tokenization, outlining plans for a new platform that would enable trading and onchain settlement of tokenized securities—pending regulatory approval—while keeping its feet firmly planted in traditional market structure.